Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who uses a particular jargon or phraseology; one who repeats by rote popular phrases, professional slang, or the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One addicted to jargon; one who uses
cant orslang .
Etymologies
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jargon + -ist
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Examples
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But even the logical fribble, even the logical jargonist, was bound to be exact.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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